The Literature of Exile
b'Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi joins co-hosts Eric Newman, Kate Wolf, and Medaya Ocher to discuss her first novel, Call Me Zebra, released to universal praise this past month. In his review for The Los Angeles Review of Books, Nathan Scott McNamara, describes how Zebra, \\u201cthe precocious narrator, a self-proclaimed \\u201cconnoisseur of literature,\\u2026 is unvaryingly brilliant and deadpan funny\\u2026 the smartest narrator you will encounter this year.\\u201d Through her travels, tragedies, romance, and voracious reading of canonical literature, this book of ideas captures the \\u201cthe experience of exile, deftly threading the narrative with theory while also using theory to pull the reader in.\\u201d In conversation with Azareen, we learn about a young author ambitious enough to take all this on and produce a captivating work of literature.\\nAlso, Giulia Sissa stops by to tell how she fell in love with Marcel Proust\\u2019s Remembrance of Things Past (\\xc0 la recherche du temps perdu) as a young woman and remains under its spell to this day.'